Cataract surgery waiting time at Albany Hospital

The median wait for cataract surgery — published by the source as "Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion)" — at this public hospital in the Spencer Park area of Western Australia was 235 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 235 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 659 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 7.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 132 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 105 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 269 days in 2011–12 to 235 days in 2024–25 — down 13% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Narrogin Hospital, about 240 km away, at 105 days. Here, 7.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 11.5%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Albany Hospital	235 days	7.0%	659 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	82 days	5.1%	12672 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	106 days	11.5%	87841 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 106 days marks the national median.

Katanning HospitalWA · about 150 km away363 days
Narrogin HospitalWA · about 240 km away105 days
Busselton Health CampusWA · about 281 km away73 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 339 km away48 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 380 km away71 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 383 km away181 days
Esperance HospitalWA · about 387 km away84 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 388 km away23 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Albany Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	269	38	89
2012–13	305	45	89
2013–14	361	43	79
2014–15	280	41	83
2015–16	150	37	93
2016–17	164	51	85
2017–18	113	63	87
2018–19	192	61	84
2019–20	157	59	98
2020–21	305	77	172
2021–22	328	108	158
2022–23	348	117	133
2023–24	328	98	119
2024–25	235	82	106

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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